Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] herself as " in BNC.

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1 Radclyffe Hall described herself as a ‘ congenital invert ’ , called herself ‘ John ’ , the name Radclyffe Hall being reserved for her publications , and was strikingly masculine in appearance .
2 The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona .
3 It must be sensible to delay breeding until the mare has had a chance to prove herself as a sound , willing ride .
4 She describes the circumstances in which she chose to focus on these tales : ‘ hearing a black woman describe herself as a daughter of Hagar outside the covenant ; … reading news reports of the dismembered body of a woman found in a trash can ’ .
5 One woman advertised herself as Madam Homa , an imaginative name .
6 Very shyly , the woman introduced herself as Georgette Aboud .
7 Leapor describes herself as the woman 's ‘ Slave ’ in ‘ The Disappointment ’ [ ML , 2 , 81 ] .
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